The only way I can access all my strength is to relax. ... The paradox is that you must learn to be relaxed while using all your power.

In most fields of endeavor there are no easy jobs; there are only graceful ways of performing difficult ones.

The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelows thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.

The only way I can access all my strength is to relax. ... The paradox is that you must learn to be relaxed while using all your power.

Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we are not directors in any numbers.

Like the color black, business mixed with anything turns to business.

My sense of Los Angeles was very New York provincial, as in 'all those people are crazy out there' (which they are), and stupid (which they're not), and immoral (it's more interesting than that).